creeping
noun/ˈkɹiːpɪŋ/
Etymology From Middle English creping, crepynge, from Old English crēopung, equivalent to creep + -ing.
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The act of something that creeps.
- It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons: